The population of Chautauqua county is estimated at 129,638. In 2017 there were 1,368 births and 1,362 deaths in Chautauqua county. Chautauqua county has 21,563 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 15,313 that are owned free and clear and 17,368 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Chautauqua County filed 56,620 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.6% of all New York filings and 0.038% of the entire nation. Chautauqua had a combined total federal tax liability of $368,054,000 on earned income of $2,624,015,000. Other notable statistics from Chautauqua County were 3,280 unemployment claims which collected a total of $14,372,000 and 7,990 charitable contributions valued at $30,205,000. 9,220 filings from Chautauqua County paid a combined total of $46,402,000 in property taxes and 7,080 filings paid $31,860,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Chautauqua county had 226 religious congregations with an estimated 53,980 members.
21.2% of the Chautauqua population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 11.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 38% of Chautauqua County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 947 votes.
At $45,840 the median income is 70.8% of the New York average. An estimated 3,394 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Chautauqua, the equivalant of around 6.1% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Chautauqua County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
9,474	Manufacturing
8,791	Health care and social assistance
6,313	Retail trade
4,735	Accommodation and food services
4,001	Food services and drinking places
3,461	Nursing and residential care facilities
3,090	Restaurants and other eating places
2,183	Food manufacturing
2,032	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
1,959	General medical and surgical hospitals
1,959	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government
1,745	Full-service restaurants
1,583	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,569	Ambulatory health care services
1,449	Food and beverage stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 7.73% in Chautauqua County.

In 2018 9.27% of listings in Chautauqua County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 14701, 14063 and 14750) dropped their price.

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